Colored Hand

This was my first attempt at using colored pencils artistically. I drew the line work in pencil fairly quickly, and I realize the thumb/index finger outline is off. This was mostly just to test out the prismacolor pencils i got with christmas money. Also, try to ignore that blue spot, it was there before I started the hand from testing the pencils, and I thought the hand was going to be a lot quicker.

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Nice!
Judgin' from how you shade, it looks like you know how to apply depth. You already know how to fix the thumb and index, from what I'm reading.

Hmm...if I were you I may have thrown a little shading into the palm.

Darkjesus oh, you make me happy, you do.

Beautiful shading on the fingers, it looks like the ring fingertip has a little bit of a lack of form at the nail area... is that because you chose not to shade in the nail? If so, I understand from that perspective.

The shading of the finger joints bending, especially in the ring finger, are very accurate and satisfying in their tone.

I disagree with Hitorio saying the shading on the palm is off. Rather, I think there was a lack of palm markings on it. It seems like either that hand has a very unusually smooth palm or you neglected some of the palm pattern. I did notice that you used the absense of shading to create a highlight. Very good, my friend, very good.

A+ in my book.

From the image I was looking at the palm was the brightest part (probably from the flash). And I was lacking a lot of palm markings. I was struggling in making them subtle enough, so I just drew the very obvious ones. And I didn't see a nail on the ring finger, so I didn't draw one. I believe it was just on top of the finger. The ring finger was coming straight forward on the 3rd section.

Yeah, what are you gonna do? lots of funny angles happen like that in an artist's life adventure.

Yeah I totally figured you were just leaving the nail area un-drawn because you didn't have any color or tool that would be appropriate to draw the nail with in comparison to the hand.

Any chance we can see the hand?

Mhm. Here it is.

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/uploadedImages/Home/Articles/History/Articles/hand%20reaching.jpg

Ah, I can understand what you mean with the plain-looking palm. But remember, you have to be like Inception when you're an artist and always look DEEPER... because when you think you see a certain something extra that you can do in your details, I can guarantee that you're not imagining things.

I mean, just think; this palm obviously is a palm, even though its details are subtle. Yet somehow those subtleties, despite a naive artist's generalizations, can dramatically influence the familiarity in an object that people never even knew existed.

Well I could see the subtle markings, and knew they were there, but I wasn't sure how I could make them small enough that they didn't look out of place and incorrect.

I hear ya
Half the growth of an artist is in being aware of the details anyway. The other half is experiencing how to carve them out subtly.